Authors Bryan and Emily Hassel, who wrote, "The Picky Parent Guide: Choose Your Child's School with Confidence," are interviewed at Connect For Kids. They also have a website, PickyParent.com, which has some interesting lists for parents. My favorite was Top Ten Signs of a Mediocre School, which noted that parents should beware of a school in which test scores are entirely predictable based on race. I find this amusing, as so many test critics insist that all standardized tests are in fact measures of nothing other than race and SES, while so many good schools with high test scores for minority and lower-income students go right on disproving that theory.
Posted by kswygert at October 20, 2005 03:46 PM